Creswick Primary School—Catering for the needs of students in the pursuit of excellence

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER No. 12 Term 3 25th July 2019

Phone: 03 5345 2044 Fax: 03 5345 8031 Email: creswick.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.creswickps.vic.edu.au

CALENDAR

Friday 26th July Grade 5/6 Sovereign Hill Camp - Return to school at 3.30pm

Wednesday 31st July Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences -No normal classes

Friday 2nd August Bunnings BBQ - HELPERS NEEDED! 2nd Hand Uniform Sale - MPB after assembly

Monday 12th August School Council Meeting

Wednesday 28th August Fathers Day Stall

Thursday 29th August Curriculum Day - NO STUDENTS at school

Thursday 12th September School Performance NOTICES

Bunnings BBQ Helper Note

ASSEMBLY

THIS

WEEK

3.00pm

Grade Student Value

5/6S Lucie Personal Best For completing her Sovereign Hill letter by taking on the persona of a child of the 1850’s.

5/6C Jack Safety For making good choices in the activities he has chosen to participate in.

4/5H Patrick Personal Best For creating an interesting account of how he arrived at the Goldfields.

3/4W Romeo Personal Best For applying himself fully to all tasks in the classroom and regularly sharing his ideas in maths sessions. Well done!

3/4B Colbie Resilience For positively regulating his emotions during challenges.

1/2K Madison Resilience For showing persistence when learning to calculate collections of coins.

1/2D Mackenzie Personal Best For working in a focussed manner when learning how to order the value of coins and calculate collections of coins.

Prep 1/R Riley Safety For always maintaining a clean space and pushing in his chair..

Prep/1H Jobe Personal Best For approaching the school day with enthusiasm, cheerfulness and willing to try his best.

Art Matilda Personal Best For her effort and skill in producing an amazing ‘Seasons’ collage in Art this week.

From the Principal’s Desk

Parents and Carers at Creswick Primary School

The staff and students in our school highly value your assistance in the classroom and support on excursions, camps and school events. Parental assistance often enhances the learning environment through increased adult participation as parents bring life skills, cultural knowledge, experiences and talents into the learning environment. Involvement in school programs also provides with new insights and understanding about their children, fostering the links and creating strong bonds between home and school learning.

We often put out requests for parent assistance, however we do understand the demands in our busy lives often mean we can not commit to the things we would like to. Parent support is always welcome at Creswick Primary School (along with a valid Working with Children Check), so if you would like to assist in the classrooms don’t hold back – please accept this as a warm welcome to come along and assist with the learning. Please contact your child’s class teacher should you wish to support our school programs.

Communication with staff can be made either through making an appointment through the office, via phone or via email. You can email your child’s teacher using the Compass App. Please note however, if you do email staff during work hours, their focus is on the learning and teaching program, it may take them time to respond.

If you have an urgent matter please contact the office directly.

School enrolments for 2020

Finalising enrolments for the 2020 year is coming around very quickly, even though we are only halfway through 2019.

It is a critical requirement that the school has the right staff in the right place at the right time, sufficient teaching and learning spaces and rich resources to support high level student engagement and student learning. To guarantee the school is offering the very best in learning opportunities it is important we have the most accurate student enrolment numbers confirmed by year level. Should families be leaving the school or are yet to enrol children into the school, we request this information is passed to the school office as soon as possible.

Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences

Just a reminder that next Wednesday 31st July, is a pupil free day so conferences can be held. Students are expected to attend school only at their conference time. Conference times are able to be booked through your Compass portal. If you are having difficulty please call the office and we will be able to assist you in booking a time.

Recycling/Sustainability

This week I was fortunate enough to meet with some of our parents who are passionate about supporting our school in becoming more sustainable. We reviewed our current processes in regards to recycling and came away with ideas to help improve this across the school. Discussion was also held around educating the students about not only the HOW of recycling but more importantly the WHY of the importance of caring for our environment. Over the next two terms processes will be implemented to support this and we will be working with our environmental leaders to help this happen.

We will begin by having 3 Waste Free Wednesdays this term, with students being encouraged to bring their snack and lunch in containers rather than wrappers. Prizes will be given to the class with the least amount of rubbish waste in their bin at the end of the day. We will send notification when these days will be happening. Our leaders Lucie Mallinson and Hailey Trounce will be promoting and running these days. Keep on the lookout for information in upcoming newsletters and announcements at assembly.

Students will also now be having recess/snack eating time inside the classroom as they do for lunchtime. From 10.50am – 11 students will eat their snacks inside the classroom, which we are hoping will reduce the amount of rubbish out in the yard.

If your child is sick…

If your child is sick, please do not send them to school. There is a 24 hour exclusion period where your child MUST be kept at home.

Bunnings BBQ

Friday 2nd August

These Values Winners have been caught using our school values • Personal Best • Safety • Respect • Resilience

Thursday 12th September

School Performance

Matinee and Evening performances More information will be sent home soon

Scholastic Book Club Orders Due Friday 2nd August

Second Hand Uniform Sale Friday 2nd August MPB after Assembly. All items $2

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Fathers Day Stall

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Parents’ Club are again offering all students the opportunity to purchase an item for their dad, grandpa or

special person this Father’s Day.

The stall will be on the morning of Wednesday 28th August with all items $2.50 each.

There will also be an opportunity for students to purchase additional items on the day of the stall and after

assembly on Friday 30th August.

School Photos

Next year we have an option for the school class photos to be in a new format. We would like

your opinion as to which one you would like.

Please email the creswick.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au before Wednesday 31st July 2019 with the

option you would like:

A for Formal photo or B for informal photo.

Thank you for your help.

Author of the week

Fruit Salad Dodge Ball

Goal To be the last one standing and not to get in the scraps

Materials 7 dodge balls

10 or more people

MPB

Steps 1. Carefully line the people on the base line.

2. Tell everyone their fruit

3. When everyone is lined up on the base line, say one of the fruits or two fruits at a time or say fruit salad.

4. Run when our fruit is called

5. Throw balls at the people that are running. 6. When you hit someone with the dodge ball they have to go to the side line with the

scraps and when you call out scraps they all run.

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